On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Robin Berjon wrote:
>
> Ever seen poetry laid out inside a shape? Ever seen ad text following
> the shiny curves of the latest spacecraft? Ever seen some sombre lament
> about the passing of time animated as it falls through an hourglass?
> *That* is what it's for. It's for text when used as graphics.
All three of those examples are great examplies of documents that need
semantic markup. Sure, they are presented with lovely shapes. But at the
heart of the issue, they are still text, and it would make just as much
sense for them to be rendered aurally using a speech CSS stylesheet, or to
a TTY using a UA's built-in styling rules, or to have them indexed using
Semantic Web inference rules.
If those three examples are examples of when multiline text is to be used
in SVG, then multiline text in SVG should be done by applying SVG to
documents in other markup languages, not by adding more text markup to
SVG, in clear violation of both AWWW and WCAG.
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